Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988)

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/other-peoples-pathologies/359841/

I don’t know what to think about this but I think it needs thinking about.
http://www.chinasmack.com/2014/stories/chinese-parents-abandon-children-at-guangzhou-baby-hatch.html

We did not send troops into the Middle East to take possession of oil fields [or] to take over the oil. But we sent them there in large numbers because of the oil-based importance of that region to the world economy and therefore to the U.S. economy and the stability and security of that region was important to us from a national security point of view.

Source: http://my.firedoglake.com/stevehorn1022/2014/03/26/admiral-dennis-blair-we-sent-troops-to-middle-east-because-of-oil-based-importance-of-region/

Iraq Sees First Confirmed Case of Polio In 14 Years

This ‘renewed’ disease can be attributed to USG involvement in the destruction of the Iraqi state.

Iraq Sees First Confirmed Case of Polio In 14 Years

the source.

It does seem that elections in the US simply

are ways to assure that what the public wants, gun control, less foreign wars, better health care, environmental cleanup are simply ways to make sure that no progress is made towards poverty reduction, solar power, smaller military, unlike other countries where national legislatures tend to reflect in public policy what the public wants, in the US national legislatures tend to reflect public policy only when there’s no other alternative. Of course there are the bribists, err the campaign contributors and lobbyists to blame also.